Sorex isodon Turov, 1924

Rainer Hutterer, 1993, Order Insectivora, Mammal Species of the World (2 nd Edition), Washington and London: Smithsonian Institution Press, pp. 69-130 : 116

Sorex isodon Turov, 1924 . C.R. Acad. Sci. Paris, p. 111.

TYPE LOCALITY: Russia, Siberia, NE of Lake Baikal, Barguzinsk taiga, River Sosovka .

DISTRIBUTION: SE Norway and Finland through Siberia to the Pacific coast; Kamchatka; Sakhalin Isl; Kurile Isis; probably also NE China and Korea.

SYNONYMS: gravesi, princeps, ruthenus.

COMMENTS: Subgenus Sorex . Probably not conspecific with sinalis as suggested by Corbet (1978c) and Dolgov (1985); see Siivonen (1965) and Hoffmann (1987). Because the well established name isodon is antedated by gravesi, Hoffmann (1987) suggested that isodon be declared the valid name; the case needs to be submitted to the International Commission on Zoological Nomenclature. The species was reviewed by Sulkava (1990). The recently described isodon marchicus ( Passarge, 1984) is provisionally included in araneus ; see comments under that species.